The Urge to End It - Understanding Suicide - NYTimes.com
I missed this last weekend, and found it via the always interesting Mind Hacks blog.
It's a fascinating article on suicide, and what can be done to decrease the rate.
The key point is that anything which slows down the process by which the victim intends killing him or herself helps drive down the rate. Even putting drugs in a blister pack instead of a bottle helps, as do bridge barriers, laws requiring guns to be stored unloaded in locked cabinets, etc.
A great read.
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